LAFCA – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

List of winners and nominees for the LAFCA Award - Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film!

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2019 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

American Factory

2018 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

Shirkers

2017 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

Faces Places

2016 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

I Am Not Your Negro

2015 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

Amy

Asif Kapadia

2014 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

Citizenfour

Laura Poitras

2013 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

Stories We Tell

Sarah Polley

2012 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

The Gatekeepers

Dror Moreh

2011 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

Cave of Forgotten Dreams

2010 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

Last Train Home

Lixin Fan

2009 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

The Beaches of Agnès

Agnès Varda

2009 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

The Cove

Louie Psihoyos

2008 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

Man on Wire

James Marsh

2007 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

No End in Sight

Charles Ferguson

2006 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

An Inconvenient Truth

Davis Guggenheim

2005 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

Grizzly Man

Werner Herzog

2004 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

Born Into Brothels: Calcutta’s Red Light Kids

Zana Briski

2003 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara

Errol Morris

2002 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

The Cockettes

David Weissman

2001 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

The Gleaners & I

Agnès Varda

2000 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

Dark Days

Marc Singer

1999 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

Buena Vista Social Club

Wim Wenders

1998 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

The Farm: Angola, USA

Jonathan Stack

1997 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

Riding the Rails

Lexy Lovell

1996 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

When We Were Kings

Leon Gast

1995 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

Crumb

Terry Zwigoff

1994 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

Hoop Dreams

Steve James

1993 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

It’s All True

Orson Welles

1992 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

Black Harvest

Bob Connolly

1992 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

Threat

Stefan Jarl

1991 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

American Dream

Barbara Kopple

1990 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

Paris Is Burning

Jennie Livingston

1990 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

Pictures of the Old World

Dusan Hanák

1989 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

Roger & Me

Michael Moore

1988 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

Hôtel Terminus

Marcel Ophüls